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Horrifying images from Nairobi

Some shoppers ran up stairs and escalators and hid around the mall’s cinema complex. Police found another terrified group hiding in a toilet on the first floor.
At least two dozen wounded were wheeled out on stretchers and shopping trolleys. Many of the victims had multiple light wounds, apparently from flying debris. Other walked out, some with bloodied clothing wrapped around wounds.

Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. (GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS)

Injured people sit on the street waiting for assistance after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff. (SIMON MAINA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

A police officer holds a gun to provide cover for customers running out as a shooting took place at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. (NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS)

A policeman carries a baby to safety after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff, killing at least six on September 21, in Nairobi. (SIMON MAINA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

A policeman carries a baby to safety after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff in Nairobi. (SIMON MAINA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Police take cover outside Westgate shopping centre. The gunmen stormed the shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 15 people in what Kenya's government said might be a terrorist attack, and sending scores fleeing into shops, a cinema and onto the streets in search of safety. (GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS)

People run from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday Sept. 21 2013, after gunmen threw grenades and opened fire during an attack that left multiple dead and dozens wounded. (Jason Straziuso / AP)

A woman is trolled into an ambulance after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff. (SIMON MAINA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

A woman runs for cover during gun battles between police and terrorists in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Sept. 21, 2013) (Jonathan Kalan / AP)

An injured policeman holds on to his wound as his partner searches through the Westgate shopping centre for gunmen in Nairobi, Kenya. (Sept. 21, 2013) (GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows Kenyan policemen and soldiers taking position following an attack by Somali militants on the Westgate mall in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Paramedics treat an injured Kenyan soldier in Nairobi after he was shot on the second day of a security operation at an upmarket shopping mall, where suspected terrorrists engaged Kenyan security forces in a drawn out gun fight. (Sept. 22, 2013) (JOHN MUCHUCHA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

An injured Kenyan soldier receives treatment at Oshwal center in Nairobi after he was shot on the second day of a security operation at an upmarket shopping mall. (Sept. 22, 2013) (JOHN MUCHUCHA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows shoppers raising their arms as they are evacuated from the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Relatives and Muslim faithful bury the slain body of Rehmad Mehbub, 18, who was killed in crossfire between armed men and the police at the Westgate shopping mall, in Kenya's capital Nairobi. (Sept. 22, 2013) (THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS)

The father of Nehal Vekaria, a 16-year-old female student who was killed during the Westgate Shopping Centre, holds a stick lit with fire at her cremation ceremony in Nairobi. (Sept. 22, 2013) (NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS)

Members of the Indian community receive the body of Nehal Vekaria, a 16-year-old female student who was killed during the shooting spree at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Kenya, at a cremation ceremony in Nairobi. (Sept. 22, 2013) (NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows civilians being evacuated from a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Volunteers at the MP Shah hospital assist a man whose relative was killed in an attack at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows civilians being evacuated from a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows a Kenyan woman coming out of an air vent where she was hiding during an attack by masked gunmen at a shopping mall in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Onlookers stand along the road and look from a distance at Westgate Shopping Centre, where gunmen were holding hostages in Nairobi. (Sept. 22, 2013) (STRINGER / REUTERS)

An image grab taken from AFP TV shows two children and a woman taking cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi. (Sept. 21, 2013) (NICHOLE SOBECKI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Kenyans and foreigners donate blood in Nairobi, following the overwhelming numbers of casualties from the Westgate mall shooting in the Kenyan capital. (Sept. 22, 2013) (HOSS NJUGUNA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

The body of Nehal Vekaria, a 16-year-old female student who was killed at Westgate Shopping Centre, is cremated at the Kariokor Crematorium in the capital Nairobi. (Sept. 22, 2013) (NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS)

Sat., Sept. 21, 2013

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